A large cist-vaen in the vicinity of Marlborough is locally known as the Devil's Den, and tradition says that, "if anyone pours water into any of the natural cup-shaped cavities on the top stone at midnight, it will always be found in the morning to be gone, drunk by a thirst-tormented fiend"; that "as twelve o'clock arrives each night Satan arrives with eight white oxen, and vainly endeavours to pull the structure down, while a white rabbit with fiery eyes sits on the top stone, and aids matters by his advice and general encouragement of the proceedings"; and that "if a good child walks seven times round it nothing in particular happens," but that "on the seventh revolution of the bad boy or girl a toad comes out and spits fire at them."